Junji Ito

Junji Ito is a Japanese horror manga artist. His best-known works include Tomie, about an immortal girl who drives her admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and Gyo. Uzumaki ran in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits from 1998 to 1999, and Viz Media publishes it in English.

In 1987 a short story he submitted to Monthly Halloween won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Prize. His work has been adapted into the Tomie film series, starting in 1998, and the anime anthologies Junji Ito Collection and Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre.

Ito won his first Eisner Award in 2019 for his adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, two more in 2021, and an Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con in 2023.